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most citedEntanglement and quantum tomography with top quarks at the LHC

182 citations · 610 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

hep-ph2026

Quantum Information in High-Energy Physics: a top subject

Yoav Afik, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

As a work selected for the Frontiers of Science Award, we present in the Proceedings of the ICBS an overview of how the techniques from the field of Quantum Information (QI) can be…

quant-ph2026

Nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence in tau-lepton pairs from electron--positron collisions

Yoav Afik, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Sarthak Sharma +1

Quantum correlations have recently attracted significant attention in collider physics, with Nonlocal Advantage of Quantum Coherence (NAQC) representing the strongest form of quant…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Experimental characterization of the hierarchy of quantum correlations in top quark pairs

Yoav Afik, Regina Demina, Alan Herrera +3

Recent results from the Large Hadron Collider have demonstrated quantum entanglement of top quark-antiquark pairs using the spin degrees of freedom. Based on the doubly differentia…

quant-ph2025

Time Crystal from Self-Amplification of Spontaneous Analog Hawking Radiation

Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Fernando Sols

We propose a time crystal based on a quantum black-hole laser, where the genuinely spontaneous character of the symmetry breaking stems from the self-amplification of spontaneous H…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Resonant analogue configurations in atomic condensates

Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Pablo Fernández Palacios, Pedro Alcázar Guerrero +2

As a contribution to a memorial volume, we provide a comprehensive discussion of resonant configurations in analogue gravity, focusing on its implementation in atomic condensates a…

hep-ph2024★ 21 cited

Entanglement and Bell nonlocality with bottom-quark pairs at hadron colliders

Yoav Afik, Yevgeny Kats, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova +2

It has been shown that entanglement and Bell nonlocality, which are key concepts in Quantum Mechanics, can be probed in high-energy colliders via processes of fundamental particle…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Simultaneous symmetry breaking in spontaneous Floquet states: temporal Floquet-Nambu-Goldstone modes, Floquet thermodynamics, and the time operator

Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Fernando Sols

We study simultaneous symmetry breaking in spontaneous Floquet states, focusing on the specific case of an atomic condensate. We first describe the quantization of the Nambu-Goldst…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 7 cited

The BHL-BCL crossover: from nonlinear to linear quantum amplification

Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Fernando Sols

The black-hole laser (BHL) effect is the self-amplification of Hawking radiation between a pair of horizons which act as a resonant cavity. In a flowing atomic condensate, the BHL…

quant-ph2022★ 104 cited

Quantum discord and steering in top quarks at the LHC

Yoav Afik, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

Top quarks have been recently shown to be a promising system to study quantum information at the highest-energy scale available. The current lines of research mostly discuss topics…

quant-ph2022★ 124 cited

Quantum information with top quarks in QCD

Yoav Afik, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

Top quarks represent unique high-energy systems since their spin correlations can be measured, thus allowing to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics with qubits at high-e…

quant-ph2021★ 5 cited

Continuous time crystal from a spontaneous many-body Floquet state

J. R. M. de Nova, F. Sols

Floquet driven systems represent an extremely interesting arena to study out-of-equilibrium phenomena. For instance, they provide realizations of discrete time crystals, where the…

quant-ph2020★ 182 cited

Entanglement and quantum tomography with top quarks at the LHC

Yoav Afik, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

Entanglement is a central subject in quantum mechanics. Due to its genuine relativistic behavior and fundamental nature, high-energy colliders are attractive systems for the experi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 3 cited

Quantum transport in the black-hole configuration of an atom condensate outcoupled through an optical lattice

J. R. M. de Nova, F. Sols, I. Zapata

The outcoupling of a Bose-Einstein condensate through an optical lattice provides an interesting scenario to study quantum transport phenomena or the analog Hawking effect as the s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 7 cited

Non-linear stationary solutions in realistic models for analog black-hole lasers

Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

From both a theoretical and an experimental point of view, Bose-Einstein condensates are good candidates for studying gravitational analogues of black holes and black-hole lasers.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 11 cited

Symmetry characterization of the collective modes of the phase diagram of the quantum Hall state in graphene: Mean-field and spontaneously broken symmetries

J. R. M. de Nova, I. Zapata

We devote this work to the study of the mean-field phase diagram of the quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene and the computation of the corresponding neutral collective mod…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 27 cited

Self-amplifying Hawking radiation and its background: a numerical study

Jeff Steinhauer, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

We numerically study an analogue black hole with two horizons with similar parameters to a recent experiment. We find that the Hawking radiation exists on a background which contai…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015

Collective properties of quantum matter: from Hawking radiation analogues to quantum Hall effect in graphene

J. R. M. de Nova

The work is divided in three parts. We devote the first part to the study of analog Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates. We study numerically the birth of a sonic black…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 26 cited

Entanglement and violation of classical inequalities in the Hawking radiation of flowing atom condensates

J. R. M. de Nova, F. Sols, I. Zapata

We consider a sonic black-hole scenario where an atom condensate flows through a subsonic-supersonic interface. We discuss several criteria that reveal the existence of nonclassica…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 33 cited

Time-dependent study of a black-hole laser in a flowing atomic condensate

J. R. M. de Nova, S. Finazzi, I. Carusotto

We numerically study the temporal evolution of a black-hole laser configuration displaying a pair of black and white hole horizons in a flowing atomic condensate. This configuratio…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 15 cited

Birth of a quasi-stationary black hole in an outcoupled Bose-Einstein condensate

J. R. M. de Nova, D. Guéry-Odelin, F. Sols +1

We study the evolution of an initially confined atom condensate which is progressively outcoupled by gradually lowering the confining barrier on one side. The goal is to identify p…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 41 cited

Violation of Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities by spontaneous Hawking radiation in resonant boson structures

J. R. M. de Nova, F. Sols, I. Zapata

The violation of a classical Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality is identified as an unequivocal signature of spontaneous Hawking radiation in sonic black holes. This violation can be p…